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“In every odyssey, there comes a time when you must accept that what you are pursuing is no longer a rational decision,” Scott Terry writes in the liner notes of Red Wanting Blue’s new album, The Wanting. “It’s a choice that does not feel like a choice. It is a hunger.” It’s been more than twenty years since Red Wanting Blue first began their long, strange odyssey, and while much has changed for Terry and the rest of the band over those two remarkable decades, the hunger remains. Like the North Star, it’s fixed in the firmament, a guiding light perpetually out of reach. Hunger has been their fuel, their motivation, their essence.

“These songs are dark,” says Liz Brasher of the material on her debut. “But they’re about having strength through the darkness.” The 27 year-old Memphis-based chanteuse’s debut, “Cold Baby” b/w “Painted Image” (Fat Possum, 11/03/2017) is a stunning, smoldering slab of wax – a document of love and disillusion, faith and redemption – that instantly heralds Brasher as a thrilling new voice in American roots music.

In 2010, songwriter Ryan Traster took to the road as a solo artist. He hasn’t stopped moving since. Whether it be from one coast to another, or from one musical style to another, Ryan’s multiple releases and nomadic lifestyle reflect his unwavering stand against being confined to one place or musical genre. This is not an easy road, and each of his releases, which range in style from indie to garage to folk to power-pop, has come at a steep price.